The Icon - Truth and Fables
I started to serialize the translation into English of my wife's book on this subject, which is already on her Live Journal.
To simplify things, rather than try and copy the articles one by one, here is a full list of where they can be found on her Live Journal.
If there is one chapter I would recommend, it is Chapter 10 'East of the Iron Curtain', which explains how the icon-painting tradition survived the Communist period by maintaining the 'inner spirit'of icon-painting in other settings.
Foreword: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467108.html
Chapter 1 - Materials, painting technique and technology: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467238.html
Chapter 2 - Can an icon be painted from a live model?: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467495.html
Chapter 3 - Artists’ signatures on icons : http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468127.html
Chapter 4 - "Reverse" perspective : http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468333.html
Chapter 5 - Spiritual vision and the icon: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468642.html
Chapter 6 - Iconographic canonicity: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468822.html
Chapter 7 - Style in icons (part 1): http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/469319.html
Chapter 7 - Style in icons (part 2): http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/469603.html
Chapter 8 -Spiritual canonicity of the icon, spiritual physiognomy of the iconographer: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470320.html
Chapter 9 - The iconographer’s training: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470742.html
Chapter 10 - East of the Iron Curtain: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470941.html
Chapter 11 -West of the Iron Curtain: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471101.html
Chapter 12 - On the veneration of icons and the assessment of their artistic level: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471505.html
Chapter 13 - The icon: its true place and "theological" fables: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471667.html
To simplify things, rather than try and copy the articles one by one, here is a full list of where they can be found on her Live Journal.
If there is one chapter I would recommend, it is Chapter 10 'East of the Iron Curtain', which explains how the icon-painting tradition survived the Communist period by maintaining the 'inner spirit'of icon-painting in other settings.
Foreword: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467108.html
Chapter 1 - Materials, painting technique and technology: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467238.html
Chapter 2 - Can an icon be painted from a live model?: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/467495.html
Chapter 3 - Artists’ signatures on icons : http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468127.html
Chapter 4 - "Reverse" perspective : http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468333.html
Chapter 5 - Spiritual vision and the icon: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468642.html
Chapter 6 - Iconographic canonicity: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/468822.html
Chapter 7 - Style in icons (part 1): http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/469319.html
Chapter 7 - Style in icons (part 2): http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/469603.html
Chapter 8 -Spiritual canonicity of the icon, spiritual physiognomy of the iconographer: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470320.html
Chapter 9 - The iconographer’s training: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470742.html
Chapter 10 - East of the Iron Curtain: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/470941.html
Chapter 11 -West of the Iron Curtain: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471101.html
Chapter 12 - On the veneration of icons and the assessment of their artistic level: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471505.html
Chapter 13 - The icon: its true place and "theological" fables: http://mmekourdukova.livejournal.com/471667.html